From: "Mark" 

"In Israel, the outcome is likely to afflict Olmert."

As it should. He knew what he had to do and he didn't do it, it still needs
to be done, but he won't be in charge when it is done after this latest
sham cease-fire falls apart.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "Chutzpah has its limits," analyst Ari Shavit wrote Friday in the
> newspaper Haaretz. "You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising
> victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power."
>
>
>
> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15260922.htm
>
> "The expectations were too high," said Uri Dromi, a former Israeli
> government spokesman who now serves as director of international outreach
> for The Israel Democracy Institute. "All that talk about defeating
> Hezbollah was far-fetched from day one."
>
>
> The winner, said Dromi, was Nasrallah. "He stood up against Israel, no
> question about it," he said. "And this, in a way, was a setback of the
> Israeli deterrence."
>
> ..
>
> srael's biggest concession was over the fate of the two soldiers, whose
> release isn't required under the resolution. It's more likely they'll be
> released in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon.
>
> ..
>
> Because Israel always viewed the battle not just as a fight for the
> soldiers, but as a war against anti-Israeli forces in Syria and Iran, it
> wanted to send a decisive military message.
>
>
> But Hezbollah displayed a resiliency that surprised Israelis, firing
> scores of rockets daily at northern Israel and putting up a stiff fight on
> the ground thanks to a web of tunnels and bunkers and a stockpile of
> automatic and anti-tank weapons.
>
>
> Before the war, the Lebanese government had been in negotiations to get
> Hezbollah to give up its weapons. Hezbollah, which has representatives in
> the government, always resisted on the grounds that it was the only
> military force able to secure southern Lebanon - and its performance over
> the past four weeks backs that up.
>
>
>
>
> "Military professionalism has been the exclusive property of the Israelis
> for the last 40 years, and that's why they were succeeding," said Jamil
> Mroue, editor of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in Lebanon.
>
>
> "Now they (Hezbollah) are exhibiting some of those traits as an Arab
> army."
>
> ..
>
> In Israel, the outcome is likely to afflict Olmert.
>
>
> "Chutzpah has its limits," analyst Ari Shavit wrote Friday in the
> newspaper Haaretz. "You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising
> victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power."
>
>

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